Too many cooks spoil the broth, and so do too many clichés – May The Devil Take You is brilliant on occasion, but mostly plays out as an inane, muddled collection of multicultural jumpscare ideas connected by a thinly-drawn plot.

Foxing – Nearer My God As befits the title of their latest studio outing, Foxing are certainly reaching for new heights – once considered the band that would be post-rock’s saving grace, the Missouri quartet have proven themselves so much more than the faces of a single genre. Nearer My God is a Herculean studio…

How To Cope With Embarrassment offers us a delicious platter of first-class cringe. The show poignantly opens with the classic statement from 2007’s Miss South Carolina when asked why she thinks a fifth of Americans cannot locate their country on a map, to which she responded: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans […] uhmmm, some people…

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